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Several Gigs consumed by Win XP

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flylite

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I was wondering if somebody knows why the partition with Win XP installed consumes hard drive memory even when the PC is just sitting there doing nothing.
When I first start up the computer, I have 7GB free on a 14GB OS partition. If I leave the PC on overnight doing nothing, I end up with only 27MB or less on that partition.
Restarting the PC frees up the gigs again, but how could Windows use 7GB while nothing is happening?

Thanks for the help.
 
Originally posted by flylite
I was wondering if somebody knows why the partition with Win XP installed consumes hard drive memory even when the PC is just sitting there doing nothing.
When I first start up the computer, I have 7GB free on a 14GB OS partition. If I leave the PC on overnight doing nothing, I end up with only 27MB or less on that partition.
Restarting the PC frees up the gigs again, but how could Windows use 7GB while nothing is happening?

Thanks for the help.
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Apparently something *is* happening, you need to find out where and what these files that consume your HDD space.
 
Holy Smokes! This problem is persistent and the solution is evermore elusive.
Other people on the net, including microsoft's forum and on
[H]ardocp's forum, are encountering the same problem.
I was hoping for a simple straight-forward fix by searching on google, but it seems that no one has been able to solve this.
I have examined all the processes running on Taskbar manager and removed all traces of spybot's/adware's in the registry.
Also, Norton AV finds no virus.

Since other people have this same problem, I know it's unlikely to be an isolated defect stemming from my particular hardware/software combination.

Anyhow, I don't what else I can try to troubleshoot this--any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks
 
for starters. . your pagefile is set to a SET value, right? your temp internet file set right?

is it a trojan? this is weird. . ..
 
Originally posted by flylite
Holy Smokes! This problem is persistent and the solution is evermore elusive.
Other people on the net, including microsoft's forum and on
[H]ardocp's forum, are encountering the same problem.
I was hoping for a simple straight-forward fix by searching on google, but it seems that no one has been able to solve this.
I have examined all the processes running on Taskbar manager and removed all traces of spybot's/adware's in the registry.
Also, Norton AV finds no virus.

Since other people have this same problem, I know it's unlikely to be an isolated defect stemming from my particular hardware/software combination.

Anyhow, I don't what else I can try to troubleshoot this--any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks
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I have seen Norton AV cause this problem. Try removing it and see if the problem still happens.

Let us know?
 
go and right click on your my computer icon > properties > advanced tab > under startup and recovery > click on settings button > and uncheck all three boxes at the bottom in the system failure section > then in the drop down menu for debugging info set it to none, if you have a corrupt or buggy system windows if write memory dumps everytime something goes wrong, Also what is your page file (virtualy memory) set to??? what also can be happening is you dont have enought memory or a huge memory leak from a program you are running and your page file is set really high so that windows will take up all of that page file space. I would check both of those issues out. If nothing works do a format and reinstall that allways seems to work...

Hope this helps...
 
Hi, thanks for the suggestions.
Unfortunately, with the error logging disabled and restore functions turned off and with no page-file the problem is still there.
After a restart, the free space is reported as 7.5Gb out of 14.5Gb in win explorer. The memory drops by about one gig per hour.
Is there an application out there that would allow me to monitor the i/o events of the drive?
The harddrive LED flashes occasionally during this time, but that's not helpful because that also occurs under normal operation.
How would you determine/identify a memory leak?

Thanks
 
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